‘Woke Is Officially DEAD’: Trump Celebrates New $50 Million Concession From Brown University
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President Donald Trump celebrated another multimillion dollar settlement with an Ivy League school on Thursday.
In a post on Truth Social, Trump wrote, “Congratulations to Brown University on the settlement made with the United States Government. There will be no more Anti-Semitism, or Anti-Christian, or Anti-Anything Else! Woke is officially DEAD at Brown.”
He ended the post with his signature sign-off, “Thank you for your attention to this matter!”
The settlement, which was first reported on Wednesday evening, will result in Brown getting rid of many of its diversity, equity, and inclusion programs, promise not to “engage in unlawful racial discrimination in admissions or university programming,” agree to the definitions of “male” and “female” adopted by the Trump administration, and pay out $50 million in grants to workforce development programs in Rhode Island, where the school is located.
The Trump administration will, in exchange, reinstate frozen grants from the Department of Health and Human Services, as well as allow the university to receive federal funds moving forward.
The agreement with Brown follows last week’s deal with Columbia, which saw the New York City-based school that has stolen headlines with its controversial anti-Israel and pro-Palestinian protests, though the two settlements differ in structure. Columbia has agreed to pay $200 million directly to the federal government, as well as send an additional $21 million to the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission.
Trump also celebrated that agreement on his social media platform, where he suggested that more such deals were coming.
“Numerous other Higher Education Institutions that have hurt so many, and been so unfair and unjust, and have wrongly spent federal money, much of it from our government, are upcoming,” wrote Trump.
Secretary of Education Linda McMahon, meanwhile, called the reforms Columbia agreed to “a roadmap for elite universities that wish to regain the confidence of the American public by renewing their commitment to truth-seeking, merit, and civil debate.”
